Wi-Fi Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Wi-Fi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 7 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.77% 1.01% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.65% 5.04% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £208 £230 £219
25th Percentile £242 £300 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £363 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% -23.68% +48.44%
75th Percentile £264 £538 £488
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £319 £525 £154
% change year-on-year -39.29% +241.46% -48.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

Wi-Fi falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 124 119 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.66% 19.97% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 74 35
10th Percentile £185 £243 £165
25th Percentile £258 £327 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £380
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +17.11% -1.30%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £550
90th Percentile £653 £575 £592
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £44.35 £25.13
25th Percentile £11.46 £44.88 £30.94
Median hourly rate £17.12 £47.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.57% +13.94% -36.54%
75th Percentile £19.34 £50.38 £50.94
90th Percentile - £51.65 £56.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.34 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.53% -14.29% +27.27%

Wi-Fi
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wi-Fi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Wi-Fi job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wi-Fi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) OCI
3 3 (42.86%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) BIG-IP
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (42.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) IT Support
3 3 (42.86%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior IT Support
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
1 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Network Design
1 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Arista
2 3 (42.86%) Aruba
2 3 (42.86%) F5
2 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto